Day 10 & 11 - Chicago, Illinois/Bloomington, Indiana

The last few days have gone by very fast. After St. Louis, we drove to Chicago and played for the Windy City Lindy Exchange on Saturday. The WCLX is a weekend long event and several other big groups were playing for the other days.

Windy City Lindy Exchange

Ignore my face in this one.

We played at the University of Chicago which is a little south of downtown and very close to Lake Michigan. Before the gig, Brittany and Jesse took me to the water front to see downtown Chicago across the water. The picture didn't turn out great, but it looked amazing. There was a rip tide warning, so the waves were huge.

I spent the rest of my time in Chicago hanging out with the Stantons and exploring Chicago with them. We tried to go to a bar after the gig, but it was too late by the time we had decided where to go. So we stayed at their place and had a drink there before going to bed. We got up pretty early the next morning to go on an adventure. We went to a cool coffee shop and a beautiful bookstore. Then went to their church, The Painted Door, which is an Acts 29 church.

Found in a bookstore in Chicago.

Even though this post says it's going to cover Bloomington, IN, I didn't take any pictures there and nothing too exciting happened there. Glenn and Kevin drove Chloe halfway back to St. Louis after the gig at Indiana University and they were extremely tired the next day. But it was definitely worth getting to play with Chloe.

Today and tomorrow we have our first day not playing a gig at night. The first 11 days of the tour we played every night, and traveled 5-11 hours every day. Our next gig is Wednesday night in Detroit. Solomon and I are staying in Ann Arbor, MI while Glenn and Kevin went to Detroit. Solomon had people to see in Ann Arbor and it works better hotel-wise if we travel in even numbers so I went with him. It turns out Ann Arbor is where University of Michigan is located- where Laura Goben goes to school. After we arrived in town, I gave Laura a call and we met up. This afternoon I'm going to hang out at the coffee shop that she works at and go to her church's worship team rehearsal.

Joke of the Day

Where did the General keep his armies?